Popiel was a pre-Polish prince who ruled over the Polans and Goplans, western Slavic tribes that more or less invented Inspector Gadget. Okay, that's just an educated guess. But apparently Popiel was a cruel and unusual ruler, and I quote, "only cared about wine, women, and song." My kind of guy. As you can expect, his wife was a really hot German (fucking Germans) who was obsessed with power and manipulated her husband into doing her bidding (don't they all?) His magical number of 12 uncles decided to get rid of him, but the wife poisoned them instead. When the people got word, they rebelled, so the royal couple fled to a nearby tower. While there, they were eaten alive by a throng of menacing mice.
Hatto II was the arch-bishop of Mainz, which also made him a prince, a cruel one, possibly crueler than Hatto I, who was only struck by lightning. During a famine, the people demanded H-2 give up some of his grain, which he did, for a ridiculous price they couldn't even afford (fucking Germans again). They got pissed and organized Occupy Mainz, where five or so of them picketed, while everyone else took to Twitter and Facebook, pretending like they did something. H-2 decided to punish their ungratefulness by promising to feed all of them. They went to the barn where the food was going to be handed out, which was empty, and Hatto had them locked in it while it was set on fire. The famine was brilliantly wiped out as he remarked, "Hear the mice squeak!" When he returned home, his castle was stormed by a throng of mice, which chased him across water to a tower, where they finally found him and ate him.
The moral of this story is that unless you're nobility or royalty, you're just a rat and they people above you must feed you, or you can eat them. Body of Christ? But with so many towers named Mouse Tower, why doesn't that Mouse Trap game have a damn tower?
I imagine rats looked like this back in the day.
Popiel
Hatto II, Arch-Bishop of Mainz, of the Holy Roman Empire